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From rescue to courtroom: Lawrence woman faces charges for keeping a deer
August 06, 2025
The State of New Jersey has pursued legal action against a farm owner for housing a deer in her barn.
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A game changer for New Jersey racetracks: Meadowlands and Monmouth Park could get casinos
June 26, 2025
A report by the state Department of Agriculture in 2021 estimated that the horse racing industry — including horse farms and breeding — adds more than $3 billion annually to the state’s economy.
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In Lambertville, New Jersey, No Kings Day Rally blends protest and creativity
June 15, 2025
The award for most creative No Kings Day Rally in New Jersey goes to the residents of the Lambertville area, a small city northwest of Trenton, who gathered more than 1,200 strong Saturday morning.
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A Revolutionary War battlefield in New Jersey is geting a $5 Million restoration
May 26, 2025
The star-spangled makeover of the Princeton Battlefield aims to turn the site into an outdoor classroom and living memorial.
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Researchers sue New Jersey over access to Lindbergh kidnapping records
April 28, 2025
Baby Lindbergh was snatched from his crib at the Lindbergh family home in rural Hopewell, N.J. in 1932. For the past 13 months, researchers from around the country have been locked out of the case archive amid mounting calls to open the evidence to modern DNA testing.
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A community left behind: PFAS crisis unfolds on Lambertville’s Connaught Hill
April 17, 2025
Today, the people of Connaught Hill have been stricken by a new wave of adversity, in the form of so-called “forever chemicals” turning up at high levels in their well water.
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State Comptoller investigation uncovers fraud, waste and abuse at “New Jersey’s worst nursing home”
December 13, 2024
A straw owner, substandard care, and millions funneled to private companies controlled by the nursing home’s administrators. The victims? New Jersey’s most vulnerable citizens.
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Exclusive: Murphy on drones, clemency, the state’s finances – and a Chappell Roan fave
December 13, 2024
“There’s no need to panic, on the one hand, based on everything I’ve been told. On the other side of it, you have to take it very, very seriously, and we are doing just that,” New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said in an exclusive interview with New Jersey State House News Service about reports of mysterious drones hovering above parts of the state.
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Flemington man pleads guilty in securities fraud scheme
August 30, 2023
Christopher Anderson admitted to conspiring with a twice-convicted fraudster to defraud investors of more than $35 million.
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